allusion

you face me eyes moored on me my fingertips exploring your face they land on the threshold of your lips you won't let me in perhaps you want me to explore more beyond them

my hands cup your cheeks they heat with shyness they become crimson like a mountain by dusk

i fondle your eyebrows and voyage along their shapes a beautiful curve sets against your face like a rainbow against a pale sky

eyes sheltering in your eyes a strange asylum beneath i travel a black ocean. a dust brown valley i see they flicker with wetness they blink with life as though nile were glistening and civilization lay beside.

eyelashes brush my fingers. those feathers of eye they fly in an inch-high sky those feathers covering eyes like a darkness shrouding the earth

i rest on the plain of your forehead your nose spreads ahead like celtic hills. a hazel mole lying on the edge of nose like a berry on the hill-slope.